What's the worst meal you've ever eaten?

[latteloverr]

I'll go first. Steak and coco pops. The steak was in the coco pops. DD made it.

SalviaDivinorum · Today 19:25

Having just comeback from Scotland I beg to differ!
I had one of the best vegetarian restaurant meals I have had in years there last week.

They've even got a Vegan Bay in Castle Square in Aberdeen ... and even Peterhead!

Absolute and utter rubbish.

Deep fries baby crabs. Ugh.

I've just made the mistake of googling this, now I feel sick 🤢 Just why???

It is pretty much the same kind of seaweed!

Known as 'bara lawr' in Wales, 'slake' in Ireland - the seaweed (P. umbilicus) commonly used as laver bread is a type of red algae, with smooth, thin fronds.

Until recently this genus was known as 'Porphyra' but many of these species are now classified as 'Pryopia', and some of these (mainly P. yezoensis and P. haitanensis ) are used to create what's called 'nori' in Japan/ Korea.

I harvested some on the west coast of Scotland and dried it into flat sheets, which worked fine for sushi rolls.

Also, we and some friends booked an off-season bed, breakfast and evening meal deal at Alton Towers water park for about £150 per couple all in. We weren’t expecting haute cuisine from the food so had managed our expectations accordingly - but actually, the dinner was surprisingly good, really well cooked, perfectly done steaks and vegetables, homemade desserts. Which made breakfast the next morning all the more mystifying: it was as though they’d sacked the entire kitchen team overnight and brought in the pool cleaners to do the cooking instead, it was heroically, comically bad. The sausages were somehow both burned and raw simultaneously. The poached eggs appeared to have been poached in neat cooking oil. They'd run out of hash browns and substituted them with undercooked onion rings. I hadn’t previously known it was possible for a croissant to bounce. Even the apples in the fruit bowl were soft, and the cereal stale. We just laughed solidly all through breakfast.

It was ravioli in sage butter at the now defunct Carluccio’s restaurant chain. Stomach turning gloopy, glue like butter, genuinely awful.

Steak at a local cafe / restaurant that is usually very good but which was over cooked and tasted boiled.

Otherwise nothing else particularly sticks out and I eat out regularly.

I think I would have to say the roast lamb, mint sauce, and roast potatoes that I was forced to eat once a month when I was a child. My mum was an excellent cook, but I really hate most roast meat. Roast potatoes make me heave, and combined with lamb and mint sauce just takes it to a whole new level of revoltingness. I swore blind that I would never eat another roast meal, apart from chicken or Turkey, when I left home and I've managed almost 50 years so far 😆

I remain convinced that andouilette is a trick played on unsuspecting tourists by the French.

Raw lamb at a wedding. I don't eat lamb and there was no alternative. Plus, I was in the early stages of pregnancy so raw meat wasn't really on my agenda.
Truly awful.

First meal post c-section - hospital beef stroganoff. It looked like actual vomit 🤢

Same here. Wtf is that. I'm about 10 mins away from eating a very inoffensive supermarket pizza and I suddenly don't feel hungry at all!!!

A steak from a bbq that the friends bragged was their signature dish. The side dishes were revolting...a canned green bean and Campbell's mushroom soup dish baked in the oven for hours.Packet mashed potatoes made with water I presumed. And tomatoes soaked in a bottled salad dressing.
iIt was so awful.
They were seriously deluded about their cooking skills.

Pretty much anything that I have cooked myself

Whitebait. It was the eyes...

Living in China about 15 years ago. Invited to a party that the food was a whole roasted goat covered in the spiciest thick glaze. It nearly killed my insides. Great party though, loads of fun and interesting people.

I had a tasty rabbit stew made by MIL. The issue was having to chew carefully as there was shot in the rabbit. It did spoil the enjoyment quite alot, it tasted nice.

It's a toss up between uni and a big plate of boiled offal including an unseasoned stomach bag of blood. If I had to eat one again #TeamOffal. Sea urchin stays with you.

And yes, both were fresh and prepared in the host's professional style.

A pizza on a motorway pizza express restaurant. Couldn't tell where the pizza Andes and the plate started.

Just been in Scotland and all meals had were amazing. Maybe you went to the wrong places?

The Podium restaurant in Manchester inside the Hilton Hotel.

We only went because someone gave us a gift voucher for xmas.

The staff treated us and other diners with gift vouchers like third class on the Titanic (they were better fed).

I dont eat meat or fish so i ordered a cheese custard and trio of bread starter. Jackfruit main my then OH had tomato soup and spatchcock chicken.

The cheese custard was like fybogel dyed primrose yellow with cheese flavouring the bread was ok.
My jackfruit main was a small piece of jackfruit if i wanted potatoes it was extra £8.
The spatchcock chicken looked like a tiny bird that had been run over again potatoes £8 extra.

We had a small glass of white wine each.
When we enquired about a dessert we were told very sternly the wine was the dessert course.

It came to just over £75 this was in 2019.

Laughing at the andouillette hatred. I think it's quite nice 🙂

Roast potatoes make you heave? You have my commiseration. All the best

Surströmming - just no. Eat your herrings fresh. Pickle your herrings. Smoke your herrings. All good. Ferment the fuckers? That is a war crime.

@ILoveToCleanSaidNooneEver Nooooo! Roast potatoes are the food of the devil. I make them most weeks for my husband but I couldn't eat one if my life depended on it.